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  • Simple math and logic dictate that at that point in time ANY ACTION other than voting for Harris was supporting Trump.

    Logically, it must then follow that ANY ACTION other than voting for Trump was supporting Harris.

    Did I also vote Marianne Williamson, Cenk Uygur, and Cornell West by voting for Jill Stein? Or just Trump and Harris? I’m trying to figure out the limits to this new infinite-voting glitch we discovered together.



  • 7101334@lemmy.worldtoLeopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldPunish the Democrats, she says
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    What? I did vote. For Jill Stein.

    Voting for democrats categorically is not “attempting to stop fascism” any more than supporting the Weimar Republic was “attempting to stop Nazism”. They’re weak, corrupt, feckless, and ineffectual. Their corporate-owned neoliberal politics and suppression of leftwing populism paves the way for fascism’s inevitable rise through rightwing populism.

    Didn’t read the rest of whatever you said there. I’m not really interested in addressing your Blue MAGA meltdown or reading about how you’re sad that people give you shit for supporting an avowed genocidaire.

    You may view Dems as being an obviously-better option than Republicans. I do not, so if you do not convince me otherwise, I literally could not care less if your party continues losing.

    Run better candidates if you want to win. That’s how democracies work, right?


  • The same thing that would happen if Harris won: more death. I imagine Hamas also knows they were not going to win a military victory. The victory to be had for them is, I imagine, a moral one: exposing the moral vacuum at the heart of the American Empire (so Israel included). And in that, they have achieved a massive victory without a doubt.

    It’s disgusting that any Palestinian was killed regardless of administration, but that’s the pragmatic reality until Israel ceases to exist. So the question has to be how to achieve that, and I think they’ve made massive strides towards it. And as for America, it’s dying all on its own.

    Capitalists are not vulnerable to political pressure from the left because capitalism is inherently contrary to the demands of real leftists. So, my answer to your second question is: neither. And you don’t even have to take my word for it: my evidence is Biden refusing to end political aid to Israel and Harris pleading “no change” from that genocidal policy. I mean for fucks sake, Trump even pretended to reschedule cannabis before Biden did!




  • The list of known carcinogens is quite short. That is mostly because it is difficult to conduct studies with a large enough sample to be sure that something is a carcinogen with high statistical reliability.

    Benzene is certainly one of them, and it’s present in cannabis smoke (well, all smoke from burned plant matter, so cannabis included).

    Otherwise I’m not sure what your point is. They wouldn’t need to identify specific compounds to establish a strong correlative relationship between lung cancer and cannabis. Such a relationship has never been established, and not for lack of trying.


  • Yes, America inspired the Nazis, then both America and the Nazis inspired the Zionazis. I totally agree that the American Empire is the greatest sponsor of global terror and the most violent entity currently, or perhaps ever, existing on our planet. I also agree that Israel is effectively just one colonial outpost of that American Empire. Nothing I said was contrary to that, and words aren’t “buzzwords” just because you’re uneducated on their actual meaning.


  • Okay, so the left caused your candidate to lose. Aside from the fact that Holocaust Harris would’ve lost even if she received every single third party vote except RFK’s, even including Libertarians who are usually more right-leaning, sure, let’s go with that narrative anyway.

    The left is the reason your candidate lost, because the left did not find your candidate worth voting for.

    Sounds like you should listen to the demands of the left if you want to stop losing then. And we demand an end to all aid to genocidal Israel and no corporate campaign donors.

    Otherwise, you can keep losing. You may view Dems as being an obviously-better option than Republicans. I do not, so if you do not convince me otherwise, I literally could not care less if your party continues losing.

    Run better candidates if you want to win. That’s how democracies work, right?



  • 7101334@lemmy.worldtoLeopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldPunish the Democrats, she says
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    Voting for a party guilty of participation in genocide, and a candidate who vowed “no change” from those genocidal policies, is not “the absolute minimum to combat fascism”.

    To the contrary, it is enabling fascism… and really, much worse things than simple fascism. It’s just not enabling those things within the USA as much. So you’re willing to inflict those evils upon people overseas if it preserves your privilege and comfort at home, and the privilege and comfort of those who you care for.

    You are valuing the your own comfort and the comfort of members of your in-group as being higher priority (supreme) above the lives of other human beings. You are prioritizing your own comfort and privilege over the literal ethnic-based mass-murder of other humans (and yes, ICE is a terrible American Gestapo under Trump, but it is still not remotely comparable to what the Zionazis have done in Palestine).

    To reach such a conclusion, you must hold white supremacist values, at least to the extent that the values of the west are defined by the white ruling class. Yes, even if you are not white. You need to purge those from your mind.

    And that’s also not me insulting you. It’s totally normal for someone who grew up (I assume) under American propaganda. It’s incredibly subtle and incredibly effective.